Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

The glory of God is upon you.Arise in great might and chase your dream.

So you've stopped thinking you're going to die?Oh, I'm more certain of it than ever. But I've stopped being scared.

God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.

I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things.

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.